Youthless - Beck

There’s a bottomless pit that we’ve been climbing from

Just to get on level ground

Shake your seasick legs around

Dead of winter in a logo town

Signs of life are soft and flickering

Need a bed to lay my body down

Dead weight to carry down

Some static is lulling me to sleep

Hang your clothes on a chain link fence

In a junkyard say Amen

Your mouth is full of wordless hymns

And run-on sentences

And they’re helpless and forgetting

In the background holding nothing

And they’re youthless and pretending

With their bare hands holding nothing

There’s a million horses dragging down a monolith

With these trademarks so bereaved

Tied my leg to a barricade

With a plastic hand grenade

They tried to turn emotion into noise

Need a teleprompter for my life

Need a pipeline to the night

My body can’t get no relief

And this life it goes by fast

You’re treading water in the past

Trying to re-animate something that you can’t understand